Improvement in straw-cutters



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Straw.. Cutter.

Patented Oct. 16, 1866.

ROBERT OONARROE,

OF CAMDEN, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN STRAW-CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5,77S, dated October 16,- 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Bc it known that I, ROBERT GoNARRoE, of Oalnden, in the county of Preble and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improveinents in Straw and FeedOutters; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference bein g had to the annexed drawings, making partot this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view; Fig. f2, a detached portion to exhibit the roller on the pin d.

1 AA I3 are the frame and bed of a strawcutter, in its general construction similar to those in common use. nected with each other by a traine, D, are secured to the uprights B B ot themaehine, and sustain in a vertical position between them the knife E. In the drawings one of the guides is shown as partially broken away. The blade or cutting-edge of the knii'e is inclined to the horizon, and its ends pass into the spaces c c of the guides, wherein it slides freely up and down. To the lower angles of the knife-plate, and extending beyond the guides, are attached pins d d, which are received in the grooves e of the eccentriccains F F, secured one at each Two guides, C O, con-- end of the shaft G, which has its bearings in and passes through the lower ends of the guides O C. A. crank-handle or winch is so set upon one extremity ot' the shaft G that the greatest power ot the operator is used in overcoming the weight of the cams and knife as the latter is lifted to allow the straw to pass under it. This weight being' advantageous to the action ot' the knife, will not require the greater leverage that could be obtained from another position of the crank.

4The rollers d on the pins d, Fig. 2, reduce the friction against the cani-surface.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination of the eccentric e, pin d, and roller d.

The combination ofthe grooved eccentriccams F on the shaft G with the guides and frame C D and knifev E ot' a straw-cutter, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

' ROBERT CONARROE.

Witnesses:

J. S. EARLY, J. M. SHEAFER. 

